Casket-canopy.



q B. c. WALLACE.

GASKET cANo'PY.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2, 1910.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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BENJAMIN C. WALLACE, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

GASKET-CANOPY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Application filed March 2, 1910. Serial No. 546,782.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN C. VAL- LAon, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin, State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CasketCanopies; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in funeral paraphernalia andparticularly to canopies for the caskets, the object of the inventionbeing to produce a canopy to cover caskets which will be artistic andpretty and at the same time collapsible and capable of being unfoldedand put up or taken down and folded in a few seconds, this being theadvantage gained over the commonly used present day canopies which arecomplicated and of many parts and require from fifteen minutes upward oftime to set up or take down.

A further object of the present invention is to produce a simple andinexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective forthe purposes for which it is designed.

These objects, I accomplish by means of such structure and relativearrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the followingspecification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

Figure 1 is an outline view of the upper portion of the canopy as itappears in open position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the foldingskeleton or frame of the can opy as it appears in open position. Fig. isa rear elevation of the same in folded position. Fig. 4 is a sectionalview taken on a line wof Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a frag-- mentary view of aframe 3 showing a wrapping tape thereon. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view ofa hanging ring showing the method of securing supporting tapes thereon.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawings 1 and 2 designate the main bars or beams of the frames whichare hinged together in parallel relation and each has a projecting wireframe 3 having their ends bent as at Il: and fitting into grooves 5 inthe members 1 and 2 and secured there by staples or other fasteningmeans G. Each of the frames 3 are wound or bound with a soft tape 7 toprevent frictional wear and to permit the drapery silk 8 to be sewed orsecured thereto.

Secured on each corner of each frame 3 as at 9 and projecting thro-ugh aring 10 to the opposite corner of the other frame 3 is a supporting tape11 while 12 is a supporting tape secured to both frames 1 and 2 at eachend and passing also through the ring 10, such tape 12 crossing eachother and forming an intervening free space at 13 to permit the members1 and 2 to fold; and the lengths also of the tapes 1l, and l2 are suchas to permit the members 3 to fold to a completed folded position asshown in Fig. 3.

All the members 1'1 and 12 are bound firmly together just beneath thering 10 by a cord 14; thus holding the ring 10 in a rigid fixedposition, hence to unfold the canopy the operator grasps said ring andthe skele ton is pulled and opens into open position whereas to fold itagain the ring 10 is left loose and the frame folded to closed posi'-tion.

The drapery 8 is draped over the skeleton or frame in any desiredartistic manner.

From the foregoing description it. will be readily seen that I haveproduced silch a device as substantially fulfils the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

wWhile this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice such devia tions from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from t-he spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A casket canopy comprising two members hinged together in parallelrelation, a projecting rectangular frame on each of said members, a tapeextending from each end of each said parallel members to the oppo siteendI of its adjacent member, a tape extending from each outer corner ofeach of In testimony whereof I affix my signature sald rectangularJframes to the opposlte cor- 1n presence of two Wltnesses. ner of ltsadjacent frame, all of sald tapes passing through a common ring, meansBENJAMIN C WALLACE' binding all of said tapes together just belowWitnesses:

said ring, and a canopy draped over said PERCY S. WEBSTER,

tapes and frames. J osHUA B. WEBSTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for -ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

